Brett Favre looks like a muscular Santa Claus

While Vikings fans pass these cold winter days trying to guess who will be their Quarterback of the Future, one of their Quarterbacks of the Past is getting all the Internet buzz.

Brett Favre was spotted at a conference in Orlando, Fla., over the weekend, looking more mountain man than NFL quarterback. And judging from the photos, two things are obvious.

1. He has been working out a lot with the weights.

2. He hasn't been working out a lot with the razor.

Old No. 4 never looked this chiseled during his playing days, and certainly not in his 2010 farewell tour with the Vikings. He also never looked so much like the “before” guy in a Just For Men commercial.

We shouldn't be too surprised. His agent, Bus Cook, hinted at the transformation six months ago.

“His arms look like a blacksmith's arms,” Cook said in a September interview with al.com. “He rides a bike probably 30-50 miles a day. He runs four or five miles a day. He's coaching at the high school, and they're undefeated. He loves it. His body fat is 7.5 percent, and he weighs 225 pounds. He could play today, better than a lot of them out there today.”

The key word there was “could.” Because a month later, when the St. Louis Rams inquired about his availability, Favre declined.

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Favre also “could” start shaving again, but he has declined that, too. He told the NFL Network why in an interview that aired on Super Bowl Sunday.

“I started (his Grizzly Adams beard) at the end of our high school football season. It's that transition from hot to colder hunting season and ... blah blah blah ... I just got lazy,” Favre said.

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